Michel Cote

Michel C: Lapon Bal

by Paul Olson
January 24, 2005

Québec saxophonist Michel Coté's Lapon Balèze may not be the best of the many excellent albums released by the Effendi label last year, but it is absolutely the most original. Coté's been very interested in traditional African music of late and he realizes this interest in the polyrhythmic setting of Raynald Drouin on drum kit, percussion and steel drums, Christian Paré on percussion, and Alain Bédard on bass. The front line of Coté(on baritone sax, tenor sax and additional percussion) ...